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    Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico: revisiting the evidence

    LSE Research Online, 2008
    This article explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries.
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    The new social and economic order in 21st century China: can the government bring a kinder, gentler mode of development?

    Oxford University Library, 2008
    This paper addresses the new turn in China‘s development paradigm and assesses its prospects, focusing particularly on whether the government will be able to improve rural public services, and reverse the trend of growing inequality. This assessment is done through the lens of fiscal policies, the primary instrument for the government in implementing the new paradigm.
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    Writing about equity in health in east and southern Africa: a writing skills manual

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2008
    Equity in health implies addressing differences in health status that are unnecessary, unavoidable and unfair. Equity-motivated interventions seek to allocate resources preferentially to those with the lowest health status.
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    The pattern and causes of economic growth in India

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2007
    This paper attempts to analyse and understand the constellation of forces that have determined the growth performance of the Indian economy, including its long period of hibernation and sudden, recent show of dynamism.
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    Viet Nam, human rights and trade implications of Viet Nam’s accession to the WTO

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2008
    The global economy and human rights interact in many fundamental and important ways. Upon Viet Nam’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization, this paper asks what are, and will likely be, the consequences for the enjoyment, protection and promotion of human rights for the people of Viet Nam?
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    The evolution of horizontal inequalities in Madagascar, 1999-2005

    Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2008
    This paper looks at the possible existence of persistent horizontal inequalities in Madagascar from 1999-2005. It explores the hypothesis that horizontal inequalities are a result of a consistent pattern of poverty among core groups and subpopulations with identifiable characteristics over time.
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    Assessing the redistributive effect of fiscal policy

    World Bank, 2008
    How does a government’s fiscal policy, and, specifically, its tax policy, influence the distribution of economic welfare in a society? In the context of poverty and inequality, accounting for the distributional effects of public policy is essential when evaluating government intervention. One way of doing this is through expenditure and tax incidence analysis.
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    Poverty, inequality and ethnic minorities in Vietnam

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    This study examines how and why ethnic minorities are poorer than ethnic majorities in Vietnam using the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey VHLSS data for 2002 and 2004. The analysis is designed to throw additional light on persistent ethnic poverty and inequality. Key findings include:
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    Poverty reduction in the New Asia and Pacific: key challenges of inclusive growth for the Asian Development Bank

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    This paper summarises the strategic discussion at the Forum on ‘Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction in the New Asia and the Pacific’ in October 2007. It specifically focuses on the role of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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    Assessing Honduras’ CCT programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar: the expected and unexpected realities

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Over the past ten years there has been an increase in the use of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes in Latin America. One initiative in Honduras, the PRAF (Programa de Asignación Familiar or Family Allowance Programme), has been running for eighteen years.

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